100 REPORT OF THE EVECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Payment for loss of tools by the fire, authorized by 



resolution of the Board, February 1, 1SG7 \ S500 00 



Salaries secretary, clerks, and laborers 8,67G 65 



$12,488 84 



PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



Smithsonian contributions, (quarto) $4,621 76 



Smithsoniau miscellaneous collections, (octavo) 2,045 20 



Smithsonian report, illustrations, stereotyping, &c. . . 920 18 



Meteorology ! 1,044 39 



Apparatus 457 82 



Laboratory 17 41 



Explorations 923 49 



■ 10,030 25 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND LITERARY EXCHANGES. 



Purchase of books and binding $719 10 



Literary and scientific exchanges 3,507 87 



Assistants in museum 5,890 39 



Incidentals for museum, alcohol, benzine, Sec 1,715 81 



Freights 2,072 38 



'■ 13,905 55 



Total expenditure in 1867 75,075 38 



The Board of Regents having directed the sale of the United States 7.30 

 bonds, as also the Indiana, Georgia, and Washington bonds, the proceeds to be 

 applied to the increase of the ])ermanent capital, this was accordingly done 

 through the agency of the bankers of the Institution. The act of Congress of 

 February 8, 1867, passed in accordance with the memorial of the Board of 

 Regents, (see report for 1866, page 74,) authorized the Institution to deposit 

 with the Secretary of the Treasury, on the same terms as the original bequest, 

 the residuary legacy of Srnithson, together with other sums not exceeding, with 

 the original, $1,000,000. From part of the proceeds of the sale of the United 

 States and State stocks referred to, the sum of $108,620 37, with the residuary 

 legacy, $26,210 63, making $134,831, was deposited in the treasury of the 

 United States; thus making the total amount of the Smithson fund perpetually 

 in the United States treasury, bearing 6 per cent, interest, payable semi-annu- 

 ally, $650,000. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture continues to pay one-half of the salary of 

 the clerk emploj'cd to take charge of the meteoi'ological statistics. 



The appropriation annuall}' made by Congress " for the care and preservation 

 of the ct)llections of the exploring and surveying expeditions of tlie govern- 

 ment" has been expended, as heretofore, under the direction of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, and as the amount was increased for the year ending July 1, 1868, 

 from $4,000 to $10,000, a part of this has been applied to the preservation of 

 that part of the l)uilding devoted to the collections, and other purpoSies. 



The State of Virginia has paid four per cent, interest on its stock, reserving 

 two per cent, in Richmond, to be jniid whenever the conflicting claims between 

 the old State and the new State of West Virginia should be settled. All the 

 interest due on the stock of the State up to the 1st of January, 1867, amount- 

 ing to $19,260, has been funded by the issue of new bonds bearing six per cent, 

 interest, none of which has, however, yet been paid. The total amount of Vir- 



